Venturi Astrolab: The first commercially available solar car – Monaco-based Venturi Company’s Astrolab, the first commercial electro-solar hybrid vehicle, will enter the market in early 2008. The company claims a top speed of 120 km/h (74 mph) and a range ...

Though widely researched for many years, the transfer of nanotube properties to composite materials to produce high performance composites has proved a difficult feat. Research for the past five years at the Florida Advanced Center for Composite Technologies on the ...

A unique air-breathing rocket built by students from the Technion in Haifa, Israel was launched from a test facility on early May this year. The sleek 3.7 meter (12 foot) Ramtech rocket took to the Israeli skies, reaching a speed ...

Touch-N-Drive – This tiny biometric device connects to the car and recognizes up to 10 users for immobilizer and an unlimited number of IDs for fleet management. The Touch-N-Drive includes a USB socket, an internal battery back-up, and can be ...

Your own personal U-Boat – developed by U-Boat Worx, this small sub is based on a unique concept called the “Underwater Boat”. The concept combines the characteristics of a submersible -“the underwater (U-) part”, with those of a normal vessel ...

The Sea Orbiter – Designed by the French architect Jaques Rougerie, the vessel, containing various laboratories for studying marine life, will be 51 meters high, two-thirds of which will be submerged underwater. The Sea Orbiter is based on a smaller ...

Carnegie Mellon’s 6.5-ton “Crusher” combines strength and mobility to create an extremely robust, unmanned vehicle that can function on its own in challenging off-road terrain. The project is known as UPI, which stands for Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle (UGCV) PerceptOR ...

The Dolphin Watercraft is fully submersible vessel designed by Innespace to mimic the look and abilities of a dolphin. Currently, dives are restricted to just a few feet below the surface, but deeper dives may be possible in the future ...

Here is an interesting solution that might help alleviate some of the congestion problems so common to modern cities. This foldable motorbike is not a new invention. According to Di Blasi, the American company producing these little cuties, the model ...